Monday, February 23, 2009

well, saturday afternoon didn't go quite as well as planned. rather than taking a really long nap, boden refused to nap AT ALL. he layed in his crib for 1.5 hrs whining, talking, crying, talking, playing...everything but sleeping. when i finally gave in and got him up i said "don't you want to go to sleep?" and he said "NO, NO!" it was hard not to laugh. lately he says 'no' to everything - especially sleep! he had a rough night sat night - he woke up for about 2.5 hours in the middle of the night and wouldn't go back to sleep until michael finally went and slept on his floor. we thought he would be so exhausted that he would take a good nap sunday afternoon - WE were exhausted! but, again, he refused to nap! little stinker. thank God he is napping today - and i finished last week's layout!

we had a fun week - my dad came to visit tues night - wed. he had a business meeting in st louis and was able to come down the night before and spend some time with us, then he got to play with boden all morning before his meeting, and finally, have dinner with us before he headed home. unfortunately his flight got delayed going home and he had to spend an extra 2.5hrs at the airport :( yuck. but we had fun while he was here and i think boden really loved the surprise of poppa being there when he woke up on wed. morning. on friday we went and met Jackson Hall for the first time - Vinny and Jamie's new little boy. he's adorable - with tons of hair! and then of course the little gym & my "me" time at panera that i mentioned previously. God must have known i was going to need that re-charge on sat. because the no-napping-whiny toddler really pushed my patience (and sanity) on sat afternoon!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

another week with the brueseke family - i know you're dying to know what we've been up to ;)

i'm actually almost completely caught up with my project 365 scrapbook - which is absolutely amazing for me! this morning my lovely husband dropped me off at panera so i could spend a couple hours reading, scrapbooking, and sipping tea while he and boden run some errands together. for a stay at home mom this is just about the best gift i could ask for. (time at home alone is great, but i always feel like i should be cleaning something so its not as relaxing as it should be)

earlier this morning we went to the the little gym with our friends brian & jessica and their little boy, isaac. it was "bring a friend day" so they invited us. it was lots of fun - boden loved it. i wanted to take lots of pictures, but i didn't want to be so focused on photos that i didn't enjoy playing with boden, so i left my camera in the bag. :( the kids sang, played on the little balance beam, hung on the bars, jumped on the blow up bouncy thing, rolled around, played with bubbles, balls, and a bunch of other things. boden ran around like a little wild man. michael even took the morning off from studying so he could join in the fun.

maybe boden will be so worn out that he takes a really long nap and i'll get this past week scrapped and posted (and do the laundry, take a shower, and clean the house of course)....maybe. until then, here's what we did last week:

Saturday, February 14, 2009

at the beginning of 2009 i started project 365 - an attempt to take at least one photo each day to capture the "everyday moments" instead of just the big holidays and events. One of the designers at weeds and wildflowers designed a "Life 365" kit to help scrap the everyday photos. it's the first digital scrapbooking kit i've purchased and i love it! (i usually use free stuff that i find here). it has templates and all the pieces fit together like a puzzle so you don't have to spend a lot of time scrapbooking and it's easy to keep up to date. they even started a contest to encourage people to keep up to date on their pages - if you are using the project 365 kit and you post your layout from the previous week - you get a free add on that goes with the kit - fun!

since i didn't have a computer for most of january i'm a little behind on my january layouts, but here is my layout from the first week of february:

*if you click on the image it will open it in a bigger window so you can read the journaling

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

For those of you who don't know already, Michael and I are part of the pastoral staff of the new Destiny Church campus in O'Fallon, MO - and we are so excited! We have already grown to more than double our size since launching last month - we had just under 100 adults and children worshiping at the O'Fallon campus on Sunday!

Here are some photos from this past weekend - it was our first time holding the service in the gym and we moved the nursery & preschool into the cafeteria. We are meeting at an elementary school, so everything has to be set up before service, then taken down after and stored until the next week - so it requires some creativity in what equipment to use - and some amazing volunteers who show up early and stay late to get everything set up and torn down.

The lovely Laura in our nursery/preschool before the kids arrived

Fast Track - K-5th grade

Worship

The worship team

Pastor Mark sharing the message

We are so excited to be part of what God is doing through Destiny Church in O'Fallon! If you live in the O'Fallon/ St Charles County area and are looking for a church, or know someone who is - come visit us! You can find out more and get directions at the Destiny Church website.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

friday night i got the chance to spend the evening with some of my favorite ladies in the whole world. sara, nicki, and alicia were my bridesmaids (other than my sisters) and my best friends from college. we all have very busy lives now and even though we all live in the st louis area, we rarely are able to get together all at the same time...in fact, it had been 3 years since we all sat around the same table together! you would never have known it by the way we carried on all evening long. we eventually ended up adding more tip to our checks because we occupied our table at the restaurant for 4 hours - poor server probably wondered if we would ever leave -and i'm sure we could have gone on for hours longer had time allowed.

thanks for a wonderful evening ladies! i love you all very much and lets not wait 3 years before we do it again!